Fear
For this assignment, my group was given the project to take pictures that represented the word “Fear”. Fear, to me, is a very black-and white emotion: you’re either afraid of something or you’re not; but at the same time there’s a certain emotional intensity to it; which is why I chose to use a photograph that I took in black & white.
Fear to me is also not necessarily something that comes in the image of a monster or a person cowering in fear. I had the idea to take a page from history to describe fear, since often the elements of fear that are so central can be described in a cultural phenomena. During the era of the Cold War in America, millions lived in fear of this image appearing on their Television set; and in the 1980′s, when the film The Day After Tomorrow premiered, millions saw it and became even more paralyzed by the fear of nuclear warfare.
I had initially taken the photo at a few different angles with a few different props: initially, I had used a small toy wrapped in tinfoil (as a makeshift radioactive protection suit) to stand in front of the TV and represent how that fear can overtake someone, but it ended up looking like I was trying to make a joke out of it (admittedly, my little stuffed dog looked pretty funny in tinfoil). I ended up putting a white background behind my TV set (made out of a mishmosh of photos from google: click for individual tv set and nuclear bomb pictures) in order to emphasize how something so simple as a TV set can create such chaos. I took the photo from a number of different angles, finally settling on the one that looks at the TV straight on with it in the corner – emphasizing that fear can be something that isn’t necessarily the central focus of our lives, but that it’s always there.
Picture Review
In this photo, we see a young girl playing in a fountain. What’s interesting about the photo is that it employs many of the techniques we discussed in class in order to attract the eye.
Turner uses the rhythm of light to highlight certain aspects of the photo. The light is reflecting off of the water, making an interesting pattern. The light also hits the figure of the little girl in the front of the photograph in an interesting way; making it so that the light, instead of highlighting a part of the picture, is more of a background for the rest of the darker figure of the little girl.
The photograph also employs color to draw attention. The bright cool colors attracts and yet repels the eye, drawing the eye to the warm color pink of the little girl’s dress and the darker green of the trees and benches in the background.
Finally, the photograph also uses pattern in a fresh way. Through the lines of water coming through the sprinkler and the lines of reflection in the water creates a regular pathway for our eyes to follow and create a kind of symmetry throughout the picture.
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